This is an analysis of the poem The Episode Of Nisus And Euryalus that begins with:

A PARAPHRASE FROM THE ÆNEID, LIB. IX
Nisus, the guardian of the portal stood,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aaaabbccddeeffbbaa ggXcaahhiieeiiaajX ddiiffccccffjjkX jjiikkllmmbbddllddhhnnaafX Xojjpp iiaaaaaaccffaaXihhccqqmmcciiaaddhX aaddjjbXccXajjiikkiX bbffc iXddiibbiiaaccjjddjjiiiidX hhiicciiiibbbbqqmmiillhXccXmaahhiikkaXmmoooojjiilloo ccXfiiiiffjjmXccXalloo
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,18,18,16,26,6,34,20,5,26,52,36,6,48,72,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 010100111 10010000101 1001010011 11010100101 11010110101 0101110101 1101010101 0101000101 011000101 11001010101 1101110101 1101000101 1101000101 1001010101 0101010111 11011101001 0101010111 1011011101 1101111101 11010110010 10010111010 110010101100 01010001001 0101001101 1101110011 11110101001 1101011101 11001110101 1101010101 1111011101 1111011101 11011100101 0101010101 0001011101 1011010101 1111110101 11101001 01010101111 0101010101 1111011101 1101010011 1111011101 1101010101 1101011001 11110010011 11110111001 11110101 1111110101 1011111101 1001010101 1101011101 11111011101 0101000101 1101110101 1111000101 1111110111 1111111001 1111011101 1101011011 1111111101 1011010111 0110010011 1101110111 1111011101 1100010101 1100011110 1101011111 1101111111 1101011101 1011001101 00010101101 1101110101 0111110011 1111010101 0101010101 1111010101 1111110101 111101101 11010101010 1111010011 011001101 11111110101 1111110101 01101110101 1101110101 11001010101 1101010111 1101010101 1001011101 1111010101 1101001101 1101011111 1101010101 1101011101 0101001101 01010110011 0101010101 101010101 0101010101 11001100010 1011011101 1101010101 11001010101 1111010111 0111010101 01010001001 1101010101 0111110001 1111010101 1101110101 11001110111 11100101 1011011101 1101110101 1101001101 1011011001 11010100101 111111101 0101010101 0100110101 1101100101 1101110101 1101010001 1111010111 1001010101 0101110101 11010101100 1001010111 1100100011 01010101100 1101011001 1111001101 1101111101 11000111110 01010101010 1101111111 1001110101 11100110 01011101010 10111101001 1110011101 1101010111 11110111001 0111001101 1011010111 10100101100 11001011101 1111110101 1101110101 11010001001 1101110101 1111010101 1100111111 11111001 010100101001 1101011101 11110011101 1111010001 1111111101 011101001001 1101110101 0100011101 11110011100 1111111101 1101010110 1111011101 0111110101 0111011101 0111011101 0111010111 011001111 0101010011 1011010111 1101010101 1101110101 1111010011 1101011101 1101010101 1111100101 0101010001 0111110101 0101000101 0101010111 1111110001 0001111011 1101011111 1101111111 0101111101 1111010101 0101111101 01010010101 0101010101 1101111101 01010101010 10010011101 01110101001 1011101100 1110111001 11111000101 10011100101 0111001011 101110001 1010110111 1111001101 11111101101 0111111101 1001110101 0111101010 1101011101 0101000111 101111101 1101011101 0101010101 1101000101 1001010101 1110010101 11111110101 0111010101 1101010101 101010101 0111111101 1001000101 01011100101 1101111101 110101001010 0111011111 10011010111 1101110101 1011010110 0101000111 1101110101 0101010111 111111101 11110010101 1111010101 11110100101 01001010101 1111010101 110111001100 1011010111 0101010101 0101110101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0100010101 01001010101 1101010001 1001010101 00110100101 1001110101 1100110101 11100101010 1011010111 1101011111 11001110101 1110010101 0101010101 0101010111 1011110111 0101010101 1001110111 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 0111010111 110010101001 0101010111 1100010101 1001010101 0101011001 11110100111 1101010101 1110011111 110010111001 1101011101 10001010101 11010101001 1101010101 11110100101 1101011111 1001110101 1111110101 11010100101 1111000101 11010111001 01010101001 0101010101 0111011101 0001011101 1101010101 10101010101 1001010101 1001110111 0101110101 11010010101 0101011101 1011110101 0101010101 1101111101 0100110101 1101011101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1001010101 1101110101 01011110110 1001000111 0101010111 110101101 0101010101 1011010101 100010101 0111010101 11010010101 0110010101 11010010101 11001110101 1111110101 0101010111 10011010101 11001010101 01110100101 10110001001 0111011101 0101010101 0101010101 11001010101 10110100101 10001010001 1101110101 11110100101 101111110001 1001010101 0101010101 1101111101 1001010111 1101110101 10010101001 1001111101 11101111101 1111011101 010111101101 1100001001 1111011101 0111110101 1101010111 1101010101 0101010101 0101111101 1111010101 1101010101 11111101010 01010101010 11010101001 1101010101 1001110101 1110111111 1001010111 11010110001 10110100101 1111110101 0101010101 1111010111 1111011101 1101110111 11011101001 1111110110 1111010101 1101110101 1111011101 01110101110 1101010101 101101101 1001010111 11010101001 1111110101 10010100101 11010100010 01010101010 1101010101 11001010101 11001010101 0101010101 10110101001 10110101001 1101111111 11011101001 11011000111 1111010101 0101010101 1101011101 1001010101 0101110101 1101010101 10100010111 1101010101 11110000101 0101011111 1011110101 1011011101 1101111101 1101000101 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1087
  • Average number of words per stanza: 187
  • Amount of lines: 406
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my, life, of, thy, i, her, in, to, his, ', what are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, not, whose, or, who, by, two, without, what, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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